Nieber: Secure Communities needed

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Aug 28, 2011 at 12:01 AMAug 28, 2011 at 6:48 AM

Once again we are mourning another life of a person taken needlessly by an illegal alien. Matthew Denice of Milford had his life ended Saturday, Aug. 20, by a drunken, reckless, illegal alien with a prior police record a mile long. Clearly Nicholas Guaman should have been deported a long time ago - many arrests ago.

Once again we are mourning another life of a person taken needlessly by an illegal alien. Matthew Denice of Milford had his life ended Saturday, Aug. 20, by a drunken, reckless, illegal alien with a prior police record a mile long. Clearly Nicholas Guaman should have been deported a long time ago - many arrests ago.

To say that Milford citizens are hopping mad is an understatement. They have every right to expect safety in their town, but this horrible event shows that the safety is not entirely forthcoming. What could have been done to perhaps prevent Mr. Denice's death? Something a lot of people don't know about but should be demanding. A program called Secure Communities, if implemented in the Town of Milford, would have helped Milford's Police Dept. identify Mr. Gauman as an illegal alien many arrests ago, and he would have been sent packing back to the country he came from or at least detained. All of the reasons being cited against the program don't hold water when implementation of it could have saved Matthew Denice's life and others who have been killed or injured at the hands of illegal aliens. Mr. Guaman would not have been here to do the crime.

Our Worcester County Sheriff, Mr. Lew Evangelidis is all for implementing the Secure Communities Program in all of our police departments and has been on record as saying so right along.. It's so unfortunate incidents like this have to happen before other bureaucrats will wake up or it's all in vain because their decisions are probably political. The program is already set up in parts of 44 states. It figures that Massachusetts has to lag behind in finding out what the rest of the country already knows.

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